Places to find book reviews

Before you start pulling books off of the shelves, save yourself some time by first reading reviews of books. It will help you find titles that might be of interest and it will help you figure out whether you're likely to find what you're looking for in a book you've located.

• Amazon.com Book Search (use Editorial Reviews) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/catalog-searching.html
• Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• Booklist http://www.ala.org/booklist/
• Bookspot http://bookspot.com/reviews/
• Classic Review Index http://www.TheAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/classrev/crindex.htm
• English Server Fiction: Criticism http://eserver.org/fiction/crit.html
• Great Books Index http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
• Internet Resources in English Language and Literature http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/subj/english/englit.html
• New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html
• Washington Post: Chapter One http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/chapone.htm
• New York Times Book Review (can search back to1981)
• Student Resource Center Bronze (enter title and/or author's name and Review; choose keyword search) (To access from home ask a librarian for the Passwords from Home sheet)
• JSTOR (advanced search) Click on "review."

Now: Check to see if the book you're looking for is on the shelf in the BHS Library (in school access only) or one of the branches of the Brookline Public Library.